HOSPITAL SHIPS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3182, 5 September 1917, Page 5

HOSPITAL SHIPS

■ ■ "A : BETUEN OP EXPENDITURE. A return, presented to Parliament shows accrued expenditure on tho Hospital ships to Maroh 81, 1917. , The expenditure on. the Maheno (foui* voyages) for fitting and provisioning m New Zealand was' .£84,991;, hire, .£67,318 maintenance (including coal, water, canal ■duos, stores-purchased . abroad,' unci general expenses), .£37,973; pay_of stall, 5:22,925; pay of crew,. .£29,7a7; • total, £2i2,%k A, i.i " .The following are the figuresifor tho Marama. (three voyages): F> ttm S J?" provisioning in New Zealand, r f 88,494, hire, .£76,361; .maintenance, i! 35,.11; TO of staff. .E25.625; pay of crew, .£23,722; total, .£242,273. ' . , ' >• Tho value of the equipment and stores supplied ex stock Defence stores to July 81, 1917, is:-Maheno, .£687; Marama, .£37° The expenditure in money from private sources to February 1, 1917, on the Maheno to been JJ19.395, and. on the Marama £20,932, a balance of bene still in hand. This money has been expended on medical equipment. _ ■ 'The'-quantities and cost of • wines, soirits and malt liquors placed on board and nder the control, ol the senior medical officer for *?Mj™%>»*£ v™, nil! 'nfthvWage, .£110; total, J-RRI Marama, first voyage, £i 92; second " >l; third voyage, .263; total, MM. _ ._